A new case referred to the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) may establish whether it is permissible for EU countries to create new remuneration rights for streaming uses despite creators having signed away all their economic...
Read MoreThe long running process to reform South Africa’s Copyright law has passed another milestone — failing to be signed into law in time to meet a deadline set by the country’s Constitutional Court. The Constitutional Court...
Read MoreSean Flynn and Ben Cashdan The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) draft Design Law Treaty (DLT) is analyzed by three international design law professors in a video seminar on “What is at Stake in the Design Law...
Read MoreSean Flynn July 24, 2024 GENEVA. The Africa Group of countries at the World Intellectual Property Organization criticised the slow pace of action on copyright limitations and exceptions in the Standing Committee on Copyright and...
Read MoreSean Flynn, Director, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property July 17, 2024 In the waning hours of July 16th, the WIPO General Assembly adopted a “request” of the Director General for two meetings of the...
Read MoreSean Flynn, Director, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property July 16, 2024 A technical legal dispute has arisen in WIPO in relation to the number of meetings that should be held of the Standing Committee on...
Read MoreSean Flynn GENEVA. At this week’s WIPO General Assembly, the United States for the first time alleged that the current draft of the WIPO Broadcast Treaty “exceeds the General Assembly mandate” that it be “signal-based” and...
Read MoreThe World Intellectual Property Organization adopted a landmark treaty mandating that members require disclosure of genetic resources (GR) and associated traditional knowledge (TK) in patent applications and limiting remedies...
Read MoreA President’s draft was announced in the 9pm session on May 22 of the of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s negotiation of a treaty (see infra) on “Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Traditional...
Read MoreArticle 6, including authorizations to revoke patents for a failure to disclose genetic resources (“GR”) or associated traditional knowledge (“TK”) has emerged as another contentious issue in this week’s negotiation of the World...
Read MoreSean M. Flynn, Director, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property May 15, 2024 One of the hot topics in the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) diplomatic conference on an instrument on “Intellectual...
Read MoreSean Flynn, James Love, Jonathan Band, Geneva, 2024 There is a significant push at this week’s meetings of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights to approve a...
Read MoreThe South African National Assembly has approved for the second time a sweeping copyright amendment bill that seeks to promote the interests of local creators and users of copyrighted content. The passage of the bill has...
Read MoreA group of copyright academics, creative and user stakeholders, and computational researchers adopted a new set of “Principles on Knowledge Governance”. The Principles seek to enable African and other Global South uses of...
Read MoreIn response to the invitation of the 44th Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights, the Global Expert Network on Copyright User Rights (aka User Rights Network), chaired by the Program on Information...
Read MoreSean Flynn, Director, PIJIP At this year’s Creative Commons (CC) Global Summit in Mexico City, a group of CC members “identified a set of common issues and values” on copyright and artificial intelligence. The ideas were...
Read MoreBy Sean Flynn Pedro Roffe Rosenfeld, the former Director of the UNCTAD-ICTSD Project on Intellectual Property and Development, and an important contributor to debates and policy making at the intersection of intellectual...
Read MoreMembers of the Access to Knowledge Coalition released an analysis of the major agenda items of the 44th session of WIPO’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights that will take place in Geneva from 6-8 November 2023...
Read More[Sean Flynn] Today, on WIPO’s World IP Day, the Right to Research project is participating in two launches of products on text and data mining in Africa. Andres Izquierdo is at the WIPO Committee on Development and Intellectual Property supporting the African Group and their proposal of a pilot project on copyright and text and data mining for research institutions… I am at Strathmore University in Nairobi for a launch of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law’s report on Right to Research and Copyright Law in Kenya
Read More[Sean Flynn] The 43rd Meeting of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights made substantial progress on issues of concern to a newly formed Access to Knowledge Coalition https://www.a2k-coalition.org/ These include the adoption of a work programme on limitations and exceptions, progress on the limitations and exceptions provision in the draft broadcast treaty, and the reviving of a second meeting of the SCCR. These advances were promoted in part by changes in representation from Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Argentina and the continuing expertise and leadership within the African Group.
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